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    Hassan Ali Fyzee (brother) Athar-Ali Fyzee (brother) Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee (nephew) Family. Tyabji family. Atiya Fyzee (1 August 1877 – 4 January 1967; also known as Atiya Fyzee-Rahamin, Atiya Begum, Shahinda, Atiya Begum Fyzee Rahamin) was an Indian author and the first woman from South Asia to attend the University of Cambridge. [1] [2] [3]

  2. Atiya Fyzee. 1906-7, 1908, 1914, perhaps mid-1920s, 1937-9. Born in Istanbul, Atiya Fyzee was the daughter of Hasanally Feyzhyder, an Indian merchant attached to the Ottoman Court, and his first wife, Amirunissa. Belonging to the prominent Tyabji clan of Bombay, Atiya was one of the first elite Indian Muslim women to receive a modern education ...

  3. Oct 28, 2010 · Atiya Fyzee became a key figure in the cultural and intellectual history of South Asia. Atiya’s legend, sometimes contradictory and often exoticized, was formed in the last years of her life when she lived in Karachi after the Partition. This is a fascinating account of a Muslim women’s experience of ‘everyday’ in Edwardian Britain.

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  5. On the first of September 1906, a young, unveiled Muslim woman called Atiya Fyzee (1877–1967) boarded the P&O steamboat, Moldavia, in her home city of Bombay en route to Britain. Her intention was to spend two years studying at a teacher’s training college in London on a government scholarship.

  6. To date, Atiya Fyzee has received little attention in the literary or historical canon. This omission is somewhat surprising given that she was a member of the prominent Tyabji clan that was at the forefront of Bombay’s Sulaimani Bohra community. 1 Their looming presence in so many fields of public interest has meant that the men—and, most particularly, Atiya’s famous great-uncle ...

  7. the Congress. The Fyzee family was a branch of the extended Tyabji clan. Writer Atiya Fyzee (1877-1967) belonged to this illustrious family tree, and Badruddin Tyabji was her maternal great uncle. She was a great traveller and an iconoclastic woman worthy of note in the history of South Asian literature. Atiya was older than

  8. Born in Istanbul, Atiya Fyzee was the daughter of Hasanally Feyzhyder, an Indian merchant attached to the Ottoman Court, and his first wife, Amirunissa. Belonging to the prominent Tyabji clan of Bombay, Atiya was one of the first elite Indian Muslim women to receive a modern education, appear in public unveiled and participate in women’s ...

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